Start a Sensational Seaside Rendezvous – Aphrodite’s Rock, Tombs of the Kings, and Paphos

Today we got to visit many places along the seaside of Cyprus. Aphrodite’s Rock, our first stop, has a lot of cool mythological history tied to it, although as a place to visit it is essentially just a large rock. My favorite part about visiting the rock was the beach, it was very interesting to see a beach that didn’t have sand and instead it was full of rocks, many of which had a variety of colors from green to red it was interesting to see the color variations and walking on the rocks was a unique experience. The second placed we visited today was the Tombs of the Kings. This was probably my favorite place to explore today as it had many tombs and nooks and crannies to explore. The Egyptian style tombs of the place were open to not only view in from the top but also explore inside, while inside what stuck out to me was one short pathway you had to crouch to enter that on the side had space cut out to lay a body or coffin in. I would be interested to know exactly how many bodies would have originally fit inside all of the tombs if they were filled as there were many spaces that could fit bodies and sometimes it was hard to what exactly the spaces within the tombs were originally used for. The last place we visited was Paphos harbor, the harbor is a tourist area and alongside it you can find many shops and restaurants. While a small group of friends and I were walking along the harbor we found a statue of a boy holding a fish that was made in 2016, the statue didn’t have any further information, but I would have loved to learn the reason behind why the statue was created. We also got to visit the House of Dionysus; this was a roman palace that had beautiful mosaics on the floor, it even had in one area a Greek mosaic that was originally covered up by the Romans. One interesting this about the house was learning the difference between Roman and Greek mosaics. Greek mosaics use smaller rocks that they handpick and keep intact in the mosaic, on the other hand roman mosaics use more colorful rocks that they break up into smaller cubes to fit together and create an unbroken image.

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